FAT GQ LATINA SWAG.: Racism: What Does It Mean?
Racism is not just about color. I repeat. Racism is not just about color. When we tell these clueless folks on Tumblr that racism is prejudice + power, we should break down that power into easy-to-comprehend nuggets for better retention:
Prejudice: the ideology that Group B…
The reality is that fat people are often supported in hating their bodies, in starving themselves, in engaging in unsafe exercise, and in seeking out weight loss by any means necessary. A thin person who does these things is considered mentally ill. A fat person who does these things is redeemed by them. This is why our culture has no concept of a fat person who also has an eating disorder. If you’re fat, it’s not an eating disorder — it’s a lifestyle change.
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Lesley Kinzel (via curvesahead)
I will always reblog this because it is so so important.
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I just want to nail this to every stable surface I can find. I cannot count the amount of times that I’ve seen fat folks being encouraged, cajoled, and even forced into behaviors that would be recognized as disordered eating/exercising patterns in thin folks.
Pretty much everything that’s done on shows like The Biggest Loser would be called out as pro-ana/pro-orthorexia in a thin person. Exercising past the point that it hurts, to the point where you’re throwing up, even injuring yourself? Berating yourself because you didn’t lose ENOUGH weight this week? Constantly talking about how fat is weakness and thinness will make everything better, about how you can’t stand to be your current weight anymore? Emphasis on weight as a sign of how much control, strength, and worth you have? Viewing food as bad, as a temptation to sin? Constant sharing and talking about tips on how to minimize food intake, how to lose weight?
That sounds exactly like every pro-ana/pro-mia blog I’ve ever seen. It’s also what fat people are told we need to be doing to ourselves until we’re thin.
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This is from a documentary called “The Color of Fear”. If you want to understand how people of color feel every fucking day, then watch this video. Especially when he starts yelling.
I wonder how much has changed in the last 16 years :|
“And that’s part of what it means to be American, to me. To have all these things that you can do if you want to that you don’t have to do if you don’t wanna do. And there’s a way in which american and white and human become synonyms. That, why can’t we all just treat each other as human beings, to me, when i hear it from a white person, means, why can’t we all just pretend to be white people.”
YES YES YES YES UGH YES.
and i want white people to know that that anger he has, when he’s yelling, the pain he’s expressing, that is what we carry every fucking day with us and learn to repress. every damn day. for your comfort. for our safety. and to the detriment of our health. remember that.
YES
I want to punch that white man in the face repeatedly. Ugggghhhhh so much fucking rage at his impassive not-giving-a-shit in the face of that beautiful impassioned truth.
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The Lair: Airy and full of light: The Importance of Checking In
Checking in with yourself is an act of self-affirmation, a way of reminding yourself that your inner being matters. It is also a way of giving yourself credit for all your efforts. Some good times to check in with yourself include: when you are being triggered, right…
GLITTER POLITIC: on cultivating momements of whimsy and connection in my life as a survival tool
lez be real pals, i get really fucking bogged down sometimes. i have recently started to realize that having whimsical experiences and having heart connections with others are coping mechanisms form me and make me feel ‘spiritually rich’ as jessica would say. here are some…
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Black men DO in Kehinde’s work, what they refuse to do in (mainstream) Rap music, which is Be fragile, be human and demand to be free. ~allcity.
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This artist’s work is so amazing that I’m just gonna reblog it every damn time it comes up.
This is STUNNING.
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Mr. Sexsmith: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the…
OOTD: Work of Art (Fatshion February #1)
Happy first day of Fatshion February! :D
Sweater: Target
Dress: Forever 21+
Leggings: Forever 21+
Boots: Payless
Earrings: Macy’s
Ugh, BEST dress.
Oh god, this dress is AMAZING.
To define racism only through extreme groups and their extreme acts is akin to defining weather only through hurricanes. Hurricanes are certainly a type of weather pattern - a harsh and brutal type - but so too are mild rainfalls, light breezes, and sunny days. Likewise, racism is much broader than violence and epithets. It also comes in quieter, everyday-ordinary forms
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Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer in What is Racial Domination? (via kidonacloud)
YAAAAAAAAAAAS
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Perfect description.
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Cisinformed
Verb, past participle
1. To be falsely informed from a cisgender perspective.
e.g:
“I used to think all trans people wanted SRS, but I was quite cisinformed.”
A-MAZING.
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DREAMZONES: Anointed in Jizz: The Facial As An Act of Radical Acceptance
Yesterday Jezebel posted an article by Hugo Schwyzer — “He Wants to Jizz on Your Face, but Not Why You Think” — that discussed the sexual politics of the facial. His thesis was that people who view facials as degrading should instead view them as a unique opportunity to relieve their partner…
About “productivity”. What does it mean to be “productive”?
“The notion of productivity is rooted in capitalist (and, it follows, ableist) ideas about an individual’s value. It is important that we be “productive”, not only when we are at work, but at all times. And what does it mean to be productive? When we are hard on ourselves for not being productive enough, what do we mean? We can try to define what productivity means for ourselves on an individual level, but I don’t believe we can separate it from the aforementioned capitalist and ableist ideas. Especially for those of us struggling with disabilities, I think this is one of the biggest, most common, and frequently unchallenged ways of internalizing ableism and perpetuating it on ourselves and others.”
This is so effing amazing. Tobi Hill-Meyer discusses a relationship between transmisogyny and femmephobia in a way that is so accessible and beautiful. I am so grateful for this video and for the connections I have made with trans women in my life. Warms my cold dead heart.
Also! Watch with subtitles here!
-AA
Love. This. So. Much.
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